Problem with Image data type, serialization.

[Guest]

I have a field set to Image data type, and store a long string(possible other
objects)into it with size 5663, and returned with 5663+28 bytes.

These strings wil be deserialized after retrieving. However failde because
the bytes seems to include some extra bytes with \0 and 0x01 and have 28 more
bytes ahead of the original string.

How could I deal with it? Just remove the first 28 bytes? It this method
formal? I had thought the returned bytes should have the same size with the
one I stored into, it seems not, am I right?

Also, the select statement on a database with Image data type doesn't return
the actual data, but the 16 bit pointers. Any explanation for this?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply.

The code is very simple, as follows:
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public byte[] GenerateXMLStringAndBuffer(string valueString)
{
byte[] theBytes=ConvertStringToBytes(valueString);
//string stringConverted=ConvertBytesToString(theBytes);//commented
return theBytes;
}

The problems is: When I call the above method, and stored the bytes(counts
5563 bytes) returned into a Image(BLOB) data field of database. When I
retrive the data back, I got (5563+28) bytes with 28 bytes at the beginning,
which contains invalid characters such as 0x01, \0, and lead to the
deserialization(ConvertBytesToString) to fail.
However, if I directly call the deserialization(ConvertBytesToString) just
after the serialization as shown in the above method. It returns the correct
string.
Therefore, the problem should be in the additional 28 bytes ahead of the
normal data cause the problem. I can manually resolve this problem, but I am
not sure whether this can be a formal way, that is, I would like to have some
theoratical support for the solution adpoted.

Any suggestions?
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public static byte[] ConvertStringToBytes(string StringToBeSerialized)
{
byte[] theBytes=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(StringToBeSerialized);
return theBytes;
}

public static string ConvertBytesToString(byte[] theBuffer)
{
string tempString=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(theBuffer);
return tempString.Trim(new char[] { '\0'});
}
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